Nine Thousand Miles Love

Joined WooPlus looking for love in a plus-sized frame

Dressed up in a costume,

no pretense in my name

You were calling out the scammers,

keeping things so real

Two big hearts finding something true we both could feel Working from

home, on video calls all day on mute Just looking at each

other, silent, sweet, and cute

Talking on our breaks,

watching the whole year go by

Building up a bond beneath the quiet sky

Then COVID locked the world down,

borders sealed up tight

No way to fly across the sea or hold you through the

night

We read the laws online,

found the one and only way Married on a screen in Utah,

waiting for the day

Never met in person,

but our vows were carved in stone Nine thousand miles away,

I knew I wasn't alone

Over nine thousand miles across the deep blue sea

Two big hearts making history From a power chair scooter on a

seventeen-hour flight

To holding you at last in the Manila light No distance,

no red tape could ever tear apart The endless love we carry

in our hearts

Landed in Manila, last one off the plane

You were waiting, wondering in the tropical rain

They took my power scooter to another room inside Finally rolled out

to meet my beautiful bride Traveled down to Antique,

spent a month by your side

Getting to know my wife with nothing left to hide

Went back home to fight the embassy and NVC

Sent emails to senators,

the President, to make them see

Eighteen months of waiting,

pushing through the wall Got the green light just in time for

ninth-grade fall Jamron started school,

you stepped off the plane After all the waiting,

no more distance or pain Now we live and love together,

side by side each day

Working over at Spectrum,

just a stone's throw away

Crossing paths at lunchtime,

holding hands real tight Waiting on your interview,

holding on to light Hoping for the papers before Jamron turns eighteen

Living out the truest love the world has ever seen

Two fat hearts in love,

nine thousand miles spanned Holding on forever,

walking hand in hand From online chats to lifetime vows Look at

where our love story is

now... (look at where we are now)